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Your argument has many, many leaps but I infer your point. The lack of attention does reduce the overall correctness of the system. But, and unfortunately, in
by nilirl 4mo ago
Your argument has many, many leaps but I infer your point.
The lack of attention does reduce the overall correctness of the system.
But, and unfortunately, in most situations the loss of correctness is more than made up for by the speed gains.
Unless you're building software that could kill someone, it's hard to reject the improved speed. The cost of delay is usually more damaging than the cost of incorrectness.
- deadbabe 4mo agoIn real business, all important software is capable of killing someone or cause monetary loss through incorrectness or loss of functionality due to performance failures. If that doesn’t apply, you are just writing toy apps or front ends that are of no real significance, so yes you could carry on with incorrect code in those cases, but it’s not much of a career either.
- nilirl 4mo agoThank you for illuminating the realities of real business. It made me realize I've only had the misfortune of being employed at fake ones.
- timmytokyo 4mo ago>But, and unfortunately, in most situations the loss of correctness is more than made up for by the speed gains. Welcome to the future, where we can create buggy, broken software at a higher velocity than ever before!
- thedevilslawyer 4mo agoHey, only rose tinted glasses will tell you the older software was not buggy. Newer software is incredibly less buggy, and significantly more secure (ala fable/mythos passed). If course code craftsmen will feel the pinch of this change